Faculty

Research:

Research: Microglia; Anxiety; Chronic anxiety disorder; Obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorder (OCSD); Compulsive grooming; Neuropsychiatric disorders

Research: Molecular gerontology; Healthspan; Lifespan; Rejuvenation

Research: Rare disease; Modifier genes; Drug repurposing; Precision medicine

Research: Evolution; Genomics; Adaptations, including vision and diving

Research: Evolutionary genetics; Host-pathogen interactions; Virus discovery; Molecular evolution

Research: Meningeal development and function; Functional analysis of meningeal cell types; Meningeal regeneration; Meningeal characterization in aging and infection; Zebrafish; Developmental biology and microscopy

Research: Maintenance of embryo stem cells; Transcription pausing; Calcium mobilization in tissue patterning; Genome editing; Genetics of osteoarthritis

Research: Translational control of gene expression; Recoding; Ribosome profiling; RNA structure

Research: Disease-gene identification; Population genetics

Research: Muscle development, regeneration, and disease; Effects of viral infection on muscle structure and function

Research: Eye morphogenesis, Zebrafish imaging, Extracellular matrix signaling

Research: Human and non-human primate evolutionary genomics; Infectious disease.

Research:

Research: Drosophila embryonic development; Cell signaling; Morphogenesis; Trainee education

Research: Mouse inner ear development; FGF signaling; Mouse models of human hearing loss; Genome engineering

Research: DNA sequence variations; Computational algorithms; Comprehensive web tool system

Research: Graduate and medical student education; Graduate student mentoring; Genetics

Research: Pancreatic cancer; Differentiation; Signaling; Gene regulation

Research: Human genome interpretation; Application of genomics to clinical care; Chromosome stability and somatic genome evolution; Algorithm and genomics software development; Cancer genetics; Nucleotide repeat disorders; Population genomics; Genetics of complex cisease

Research: Graduate and medical student education; Graduate student mentoring

Research: Science and health educational materials development and research; Community engagement

Research: Developmental timing; Nuclear receptors; Metabolism

Research: Inherited neuromuscular disorders; Modifier genes; Pedigree studies

Research: Computational biology; Human population genetics; Image processing; Computer-assisted bioinformatics; Comparative genomics